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and makes it clear that we have here to do with a special Malaccaii form, which will 

 henceforth go nuder the name of Ti(r<lini(hix haniei. 



I cannot conclude these rcmiirks without once more niVrrinir to flie otlicv 

 members of the genus Turdinnlas, as, in sjiiie of ull the irood wovk written on 

 them by Shsirpe, Btlttikofer, Grant, and Forbes, there ate still err(>r> about them. 



There is first of all the first-known species, the Mi/iothera epilepulota of 

 Temmiuck, PI. Col. 448. IS'iT, described from ' .lam ef Siimitra" : the tyjiii^al 

 locality therefore being Java ! If there is a sitecimen from Sumatra, or said to be 

 from Sumatra, in the Leyden Mnsenm marked as Temminck's type, this need not 

 concern us, because : 



1. Temrainck described the bird from Java and Sumatra, Java therefore being 

 the original locality. 



'.I. Temminck's figure agreed fully with the Javan birds. 



:!. Temminck's description refers distinctly to the Javan form, as he describes 

 the rather white superciliary stripe, and the wide white shaft stripes ('' manjues de 

 meches blanches "). 



4. Temminck's " types " were evidently marked afterwards as the types. 



Blyth's Mi/iothera murina, about which so much has been written, is nothing 

 but a synonym of M. epilepidota. In the original description the " long white 

 snj)ercilia" which are characteristic of the Java bird (and not to- the Bbrneiiu fortn) 

 are expressly described, and Ur. Forbes informs us that the type of M. murina is 

 distinctly less rufescent than T. ex.sul, and has wide white shaft stripes. The 

 original locality mnst have been given wrong, as the type bears in Salomon Miiller's 

 handwriting the words '■ Mi/iotlwra ian)-iiia, noca sjjivies, MiilL, Java " ! 



The synonymy is therefore as follows : 



1 . Tiirdimdus epilepidota (Temm.) Java (? Sumatra). 



Mi/iothera epilepidota Temm., PL Col. 448. 1827. Java ! (et Sumatra). 

 Mi/iotliera Mitn'iia Blyth, 7i/.s- 1865. p. 47 (ex Miiller. "Sumatra" errore — • 

 as shown by the original label of the type : Java !). 



2. T/irdinuliis exsul Sharpe. Mts. of N.W. Borneo. 

 Txrdinidus exsid Sharpe, Ibis 1888. p. 479 (Kina Balu, Borneo). 



3. Turdinidus humei Hart. Malay Peninsula {vide supra). 



4. Tiirdiiiida.^ roherti (Godwin-Austen & Walden). Hill ranges south of 



Brahmaputra. 

 Pnoiipyga roberti God win- Austen & Walden, Ibis 1875. p. 252 (Manipur Hills) 



5. 2\irdiiialHs qidtaticollis Grant. 



Turdinidus ynttaticollis Grant, Ibis 1895 p. 432 (Miri Hills, Assam). 

 0. Turdinulus ffranti Tiiehmond. Siam. 



2'urdimdus yranti Richmond, Proc. U. S. JS'at. Mus. .xxii. (1900) p. 320 

 (Lower Siam). 

 How far these will fall into dTO or more subspecific groups I cannot at ])rcsent 

 decide. The other forms of the genus are T. cras.^a, T. breviraudatus, T. striatas, 

 T. leueostirta, all more or less different from the above-mentioned group. 



142. Turdinulus striatus leucosticta (Sharpe). 

 [Turdinuhis striati/s WMen, Ann. <^- Mag. Nat. Hist. (4) vii. p. 241 (1871. 

 Hub. ''Khassia Hills, near Cherripoungi "). 



Gorifthocichla leucosticta Sharpe, F. Z. S. 1887. p. 438 (Mts. of Perak). 



(JcJ ? ?. Gunong Tahan,;3000 and 4000 ft. above the sea. Mr. A. L. Butler- 



